I must admit, I did not attend a Super Bowl party this year, nor have I for several years.

As a Steelers fan, I certainly did not want to be amongst others in the last few years that my team was in the big game: I get emotional and only my family should see such, if even them.

And as I said, while I have not been to a party in a while, I realize that such are purely social events for many people (I won’t specify a gender as that would sound chauvinistic in our highly sensitive, albeit tone-deaf age).

So:

• I did not have to offer the obligatory “hi! How are you?” to people whose well-being I did not even remotely care about.
• I did not have to worry about how much I piled on my plate (except for the catcalls from the wife) as I was home; there was plenty of it and I was the only one bellying up to the trough.
• I was allowed to offer (read: scream) my opinions on the game any way I saw fit, without hearing the non-football fans (again, gender unidentified) whispering whether I was inebriated or looney.
• I could make my remarks about Madonna being outdated (to put it charitably) without offending anyone of my peers in the room.
• I reminisced about my favorite Clint Eastwood movies after seeing him on an auto commercial, with no one looking at me like I was born during the Depression.
• I didn’t have to hear about how good looking Tom Brady is.
• I didn’t have to hear about how good looking Tom Brady and his super-model wife, Gisele Bundchen, are.
• When the great Otto Graham was mentioned on tv, I didn’t have to hear “did he invent the graham cracker?”
• When the game neared the end, I didn’t have to hear anyone argue why the halftime show was the best part of the game.
• Most importantly, when the game came down to the last 2 minutes and I lost all mental continence, I could, and not have to answer to anyone.

Robert Frost wrote “I took the [road] less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”  My take is: I watched the Super Bowl on my own and is there a better way?

-I.M. Windee

 

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